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schneefinkI love gardens and parks, but I don't love gardening and I'm not especially good at it. Plants in my room die, plants in our living room only barely survive being left alone with me, and now I have to look after our garden on my own. The cocktail tomatoes are already hanging their heads; the plum tree still looks good, but the plums will be ripe exactly while I'm not here :( On the other hand, I'm staying at my grandparents', where they have plums and berries and fresh fruit and vegetables...
I did a 16 hours First Aid class yesterday and today. The minimum requirement for the driving license is 6 hours, but that seemed very short to me and the costs of the two courses are almost the same. I'm very glad I took the longer one! The teacher was very good and made everything easy to understand and interesting, with many practical exercises. Those included "there is an accident, now act" simulations with car and motorcycle and a fun exercise where you sit in a car that gets turned on its roof and you have to climb out on your own. It reminded me of a very slow rollercoaster.
What I didn't expect is how much more confident I felt almost immediately when I walked out of the building. Now I know what to do in case someone gets injured (at least before the panic starts...) and it's one big thing less to be afraid of, yay!
Of course now I foresee many instances of "this is not how first aid works, idiot!" in my future when watching TV. When someone lies on the floor you check their breathing, then act accordingly, not just wait for the ambulance. And Carson, this is not how a defibrillator works! -.-
Every member of a gate team should have basic field medicine training, right? Something that goes far beyond first aid to bridge the time until the doctor comes, because the doctor might be on another planet. John probably got it from the Air Force, and all science personnel should have got it before they left Antarctica. Should have - in "38 Minutes" Rodney doesn't seem very familiar with the first aid kit, neither does Ford, and Teyla not at all. Augh, 38 Minutes is so stupid it hurts: they don't even know what's in their emergency kit! Neither does Carson! Anyway, after this Teyla asks Carson for help and he assigns a nurse to give her lessons, and he eventually realizes that he should do regular refresher courses for everyone. This becomes especially important when they run out of Earth-brought materials and have to use substitutes: Teyla teaches them what the Athosians use, because of course she was taught basic medicine before she first went through the Gate.
So was Ronon, and Melena made sure he was always up to date with his classes. That's how he survived his injuries when he was running. So once someone finally gets the idea to give him field medicine lessons he's surprised why they're being stupid and don't use plants etc., because they grow everywhere and when you're being hunted by the enemy you often don't have the time to get your field kit. Teyla sighs and says she did tell them, but they seem to have forgotten, and only one or two doctors were interested in selected cures they didn't know yet. So one day, after another disastrous mission, Teyla and Ronon make John and Rodney study medicinal plants from Pegasus. John doesn't protest and actually thinks it's very useful, so he tells Rodney to stop complaining (which he only does after his knowledge comes in useful one time.) Carson never gets around to organizing anything, but Jennifer finds the notes and recognizes how useful this is. First she just sends the information to everyone, but later she asks Teyla and Ronon (nervously) if they would be willing to hold classes, which they are. Sam reads the notes, but somehow never finds the time to go to one of the classes. But it's one of the first things Woolsey does even though he doesn't go to other planets often, and everyone agrees that that was actually surprisingly smart of him.
Tl;dr more headcanon to make everyone in Atlantis at least a little bit smarter than they were on the actual show.
I did a 16 hours First Aid class yesterday and today. The minimum requirement for the driving license is 6 hours, but that seemed very short to me and the costs of the two courses are almost the same. I'm very glad I took the longer one! The teacher was very good and made everything easy to understand and interesting, with many practical exercises. Those included "there is an accident, now act" simulations with car and motorcycle and a fun exercise where you sit in a car that gets turned on its roof and you have to climb out on your own. It reminded me of a very slow rollercoaster.
What I didn't expect is how much more confident I felt almost immediately when I walked out of the building. Now I know what to do in case someone gets injured (at least before the panic starts...) and it's one big thing less to be afraid of, yay!
Of course now I foresee many instances of "this is not how first aid works, idiot!" in my future when watching TV. When someone lies on the floor you check their breathing, then act accordingly, not just wait for the ambulance. And Carson, this is not how a defibrillator works! -.-
Every member of a gate team should have basic field medicine training, right? Something that goes far beyond first aid to bridge the time until the doctor comes, because the doctor might be on another planet. John probably got it from the Air Force, and all science personnel should have got it before they left Antarctica. Should have - in "38 Minutes" Rodney doesn't seem very familiar with the first aid kit, neither does Ford, and Teyla not at all. Augh, 38 Minutes is so stupid it hurts: they don't even know what's in their emergency kit! Neither does Carson! Anyway, after this Teyla asks Carson for help and he assigns a nurse to give her lessons, and he eventually realizes that he should do regular refresher courses for everyone. This becomes especially important when they run out of Earth-brought materials and have to use substitutes: Teyla teaches them what the Athosians use, because of course she was taught basic medicine before she first went through the Gate.
So was Ronon, and Melena made sure he was always up to date with his classes. That's how he survived his injuries when he was running. So once someone finally gets the idea to give him field medicine lessons he's surprised why they're being stupid and don't use plants etc., because they grow everywhere and when you're being hunted by the enemy you often don't have the time to get your field kit. Teyla sighs and says she did tell them, but they seem to have forgotten, and only one or two doctors were interested in selected cures they didn't know yet. So one day, after another disastrous mission, Teyla and Ronon make John and Rodney study medicinal plants from Pegasus. John doesn't protest and actually thinks it's very useful, so he tells Rodney to stop complaining (which he only does after his knowledge comes in useful one time.) Carson never gets around to organizing anything, but Jennifer finds the notes and recognizes how useful this is. First she just sends the information to everyone, but later she asks Teyla and Ronon (nervously) if they would be willing to hold classes, which they are. Sam reads the notes, but somehow never finds the time to go to one of the classes. But it's one of the first things Woolsey does even though he doesn't go to other planets often, and everyone agrees that that was actually surprisingly smart of him.
Tl;dr more headcanon to make everyone in Atlantis at least a little bit smarter than they were on the actual show.
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Date: 2012-07-24 09:35 pm (UTC)That's a good headcanon. The biology/medicine in SGA is so bad XD
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Date: 2012-07-24 09:40 pm (UTC)Every time I rewatch SGA the theory that there's a stupidity generator in Atlantis somewhere makes more sense.
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Date: 2012-07-24 10:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-25 01:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-25 02:09 pm (UTC)Heck, who I am kidding, if I write my head canon, it'd be an epic fic just dealing with how Atlantis and living in another galaxy works.
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Date: 2012-07-25 02:12 pm (UTC)For fics that try to make living on Atlantis make sense I like
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Date: 2012-07-25 02:17 pm (UTC)I'll have to try Rock Happy :)
In all fairness to SGA I tend to handwave most sci fi shows for the same reason. Some do it better than others, but on the whole, if I get stuck into 'examining' the practicalities, I lose the appeal of the show. So I don't :)
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Date: 2012-07-25 02:19 pm (UTC)(Rock Happy is a WIP, btw, but almost finished and with regular updates.)
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Date: 2012-07-26 03:14 am (UTC)But your headcanon is great. Shame SGA needs so much headcanon to make its characters competent ... :(
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Date: 2012-07-26 03:34 pm (UTC)I love competent characters! I have no idea how I got into SGA of all places. (That's a lie, I do know: fic makes them seem much smarter.)
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Date: 2012-07-29 03:24 pm (UTC)Um, re:SGA and First Aid - don't ever watch Phantoms again if you can't turn that thought off...
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Date: 2012-07-29 07:28 pm (UTC)I'll keep that in mind, thanks for the warning!
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Date: 2012-07-29 07:34 pm (UTC)